S#5 - Game Day #4

[Ingmar]

I don't mind concession if things are out of hand but unless it's really bad, I don't like it. And under no circumstances should anyone escape and quit out as a means of conceding. That means double MVPs and double money for the winner, which throws everything out of whack.

That's what is supposed to happen on a concession. The by-the-rules concession is represented by the escape out.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Sometime my Saturday evening should work well for me.

Ok, I will try to be up and around by noon or so PST (7pm your time? 8pm? Iunno) and looking out on Steam.

[Paelos]

Sjofn, are you available Saturday before the LSU game?

[HaemishM]

Tonight may not work. If you don't see me on at 7 pm, we'll have to do it another night.

And it's that time and I don't see you.  No worries man :)  How about Saturday night?

I'll check with you by 8pm CST on Saturday night. If you see me on Steam during the day, send me a message. I'll be writing early in the afternoon and watching some football earlier than that, but later on I should be free.

[luckton]

Tonight may not work. If you don't see me on at 7 pm, we'll have to do it another night.

And it's that time and I don't see you.  No worries man :)  How about Saturday night?

I'll check with you by 8pm CST on Saturday night. If you see me on Steam during the day, send me a message. I'll be writing early in the afternoon and watching some football earlier than that, but later on I should be free.

Tomorrow evening then.  Just got confirmation that I'll be getting 12 hours of sweet, sweet overtime for Saturday, and will not get off until 4PM your time.

[Comstar]

I keep missing carifex by 30 minutes on steam. Carinfex - if you see me on steam give me a yell.

[Sjofn]

Sjofn, are you available Saturday before the LSU game?

I have no idea what time the LSU game is, but I am available all day Saturday, so yes. :P

[Paelos]

Sjofn, are you available Saturday before the LSU game?

I have no idea what time the LSU game is, but I am available all day Saturday, so yes. :P

 

Let's shoot for 1PM your time then. 4PM mine.

[Ingmar]

Possibly that will collide with my game with Iain, I guess we will have to see what happens when we try to play 2 games at once.

[Strazos]

Game with Squigskins is over.

Not really much to say - Norse pretty much stomped the slimey ones into the pitch. I lucked out when an errant bomb took the chainsaw guy out for me before he ever made an attack. The bombardier was also taken out of the game shortly thereafter. The spinning one was KOed multiple times, and did minimal damage. Trolls were, at best, a non-factor - they stood around dumbfounded a number of times. I probably would have scored more, but most of my armor breaks ended up being stuns and KOs, and I'd rather have a low-scoring game where I suffer minimal damage rather than continuously allowing the goblins to wake up and possibly hurt someone.

Kail was a good sport about the whole thing, and even came close to scoring at one point, if a throw had worked out, due to back-to-back double-skulls.

[Strazos]

And now I have to really hope this next gameday goes quickly, as my ability to play next week will be very spotty, and then I don't know when I'll have home internet access again.

[Modern Angel]

WE HAVE ACHIEVED TROLL DODGE

[Llyse]

Oh god.   

[Sjofn]

WE HAVE ACHIEVED TROLL DODGE

Ahahaha! 

[Strazos]

Waitwaitwaitwait...a low AGI troll...with Dodge?

Though I guess it's good for defense when blocked.

[ezrast]

No no - he dodged a troll into 3 TZ's to knock the ball out of my carrier's hands. And into the crowd. Who promptly threw it as far away from my elves as possible. Slimy goblins can't even score without the help of their fans.

Then again, neither could my wounded, limping elves, who took advantage of their own crowd throw-in to score in the second half. Scoreline ended up 1-1 and while we both came close to earning a second point (MA a little closer than me), it wasn't quite there. The Rouge Rogues secure their standing as last in the league after letting the title almost slip away.

Was a decent game on both our parts but there were just too many 1's and 2's at inopportune times for either of us to really bring a plan together.

[Modern Angel]

God, I had it. I had it. And then a goblin got pushed into the crowd and the ball ended up in my half and.......

I just didn't have enough goblins to seal the deal, plus all my Stupid rolls failed at the end in hilarious fashion.

[ezrast]

Honestly, you had too many goblins. If you just hadn't packed everyone in quite so close to your ball carrier I couldn't have pulled off that crowd push without doing some crazy dodges to fill in gaps.

The really stupid rolls were hilarious though. Your goblins were practically running up with the ball shouting EAT ME! EAT MEEE! and the trolls just ignored them. I think they're just shy!

[Modern Angel]

I agonized over what to do with that logjam up top. I chose poorly.

[lamaros]

Things Andy Davo is good at:

A: Winning.
B: Whinging when he is not winning.
C: Only noticing dice on his own turn.

[AndyDavo]

Lamaros didnt notice the GIANT Giant slice of luck that gifted him not 1 but 2 TD's first half, clearly....

[lamaros]

Yeah, you killing three of my guys, getting a blitz, getting me to roll 1s and waste a reroll before every blitz on your ball carrier, you never failing any dodges and picking and passing the ball up clean pretty much all game, is more than made up for by you rolling double skulls once.

You are a complete tosser and a bad sport.

[AndyDavo]

the game then swung wilding in the second half, i was able to equalise to make it 2-2. A game i deserved to lose, based on the first half. Should have been 3-0 down by HT. game uploaded by me

[lamaros]

You 'deserved' to lose because you spent the first half whinging about your dice and saying that the only reason I was in front was because of nuffle. Then when the luck changed in the second you started banging on about how you had 'saved' the match.  

I don't mind losing and I could have played better and won the game, no doubt, but you are a bad sport: it is one thing to whining about bad dice (I do it too), it is another to denigrate the opponent because of the fact they are beating you.

[Strazos]

 

[AndyDavo]

No I didnt, I said saved because the dice changed. Totally changed. I was lucky to get the ball off you for the 2nd TD, the witch elf needed 5, 2+ rolls to get it out and safe. You were then unlucky with the 1 dice blocks not to roll a pow, had you managed this you could have ran away for 3-1. What I was refering to in the first half was the opening turns;

Double skulls to both downs then a 1 to pickup the ball. failed. following turn, more double skulls then again a 1 to pickup. Failed. You hit 2+,3+,2+ to score.
Next up was 1 dice block- pow for you, 3+pickup,3+dodge, you have ball, me rolling snake eyes on the blitz to recover the ball. You 2-0.

On the flip side;

I get a blitz,catch the kicked ball, then suvive the 1 dice block and catch the scattered ball, then steam down the pitch to make it 2-1.
I roll about 5 2+ dice rolls to recover the ball after popping it lose, the suvive a few more 1 dice blocks to hold onto the ball to make it 2-2.

I am under no illusion that this game could have been worse, you did roll a number of 1's but the game upload says it was only 8, vs 74 dice you rolled. When you rolled them however, that was normally in a critical situation. After you got the lead you fully deserved to win and I required luck just to tie.

[Paelos]

I love it when someone gets called a tosser. It's just such a classy insult.

[proudft]

It really Britishes up the place.

[lamaros]

So anyway. In case people weren't aware, the game ended in a 2-2 draw. I may have been able to stall and use my wizard better to get the win, but I didn't.

Andy got double skulls on a block in his first turn after he had used his reroll, before he had managed to get the ball. I then got a 1 on a GFI, rerolled safe, and then got another 1 on the next GFI when I tried to mark the loose ball. I hadn't moved much else. Andy then failed a pickup after he had already used a reroll, rolling a 1. I got the ball and scored.

Andy killed a GR next turn, but I used an apoth to save it. He got the ball and held it deep. I had a turn and not much happened. Then he killed a blitzer. I used my wandering apoth and saved it. I failed a blitz on the ball carrier, getting failed GFIs (w/ reroll) again before I got to hit it. He decided not to score and injured another player. I now had 4 players out on the sidelines. I had a turn and marked the carrier. He wanked about, again electing not to score. I blitzed the carrier, knocked the ball free and ran up the pitch. He didn't mark the player first but tried other stuff, failing a dodge with double 1s. I ran clear. I failed my wild animal to blitz some protection in. He failed to get a knockdown on the blitz. I scored on half time.

Second half opened with a blitz. I had moved to score quick up one side and it backfired badly, Andy made all his dodges and leaps and got the ball with his Witch elf. I blitzed the ball free but it fell in to the hands of a lineman of his. I got push push on the lineman, but rerolled to both down attacker down and knocked the ball out but also ended my turn. He picked up the ball and moved about a bit. I rolled double 2s on a dodge attempt on my blitz on his carrier (needed 3+) and turned it over. He killed my 15 SP thrower. I couldn't do much next turn. Then he scored.

I took the ball deep. I waited about then ran hard up one side. Couldn't get a full screen (maybe could have done better if I used a GFI, but was shit scared of failing them by this point) so he got a hit on me and managed to get the knockdown he needed. The ball spilled next to my other player. Then:

he made three dodges, a leap and a pickup to get the ball with his Witch elf. Then he made three more dodges and a throw and catch. There were a couple of tacklezones about but the Witch Elf was 5 AGI. The ball carrier didn't have block. I rolled a push (w/ wrestle). Then another push. Then a push (w/ block) that I reolled to attacker down. He moved free. Then I blitzed with my GR. I failed a GFI and had to reroll. Then I failed the dauntless. Then I rolled an attacker down. Anything else would have either knocked the ball free or made him score, giving me time to score again.

Andy then stalled for the rest of the half. I used my wizard in forlorn hope (should have used it earlier maybe) but he picked the ball up again.

All in all a shite game with half my team getting injured, failing to get the win, and having to listen to Andy blathering on about how great he is (no one cares if you lost your first game in 16 matches just recently, no one at all) and how the dice had stopped him from winning.

[lamaros]

Defender down and defender stumbles made up 20% of my block dice, way below average. Pushes were 50%, way above average.

I had FOUR successful block rolls all game. Three of those were with my Rat Ogre on nearly pointless blocks. One other roll worked. One. Also 9 of 14 GFIs and 2 of 4 dauntless.

Meanwhile Andy is banging on because he failed a pickup once. 

[Ingmar]

This is why I never, ever mention the dice except when they're fucking my opponent. No good can come of it.

[lamaros]

This is why I never, ever mention the dice except when they're fucking my opponent. No good can come of it.

I didn't mention the dice all game, apart from noting that three deaths was pretty rough (did not mention it even when two died in the first couple of turns). I am only mentioning it now because Andy shitted me right up the wall with his egotistical one eyed bullshit.

[Strazos]

 

[Sjofn]

Does saying "bah" after rolling triple skulls versus a snotling count?

[lamaros]

Does saying "bah" after rolling triple skulls versus a snotling count?

Only if you follow it up by saying "I have been really unlucky, I shouldn't be losing but what can you do when nuffle is out to get you".